Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1910 — Self-Restraint. [ARTICLE]

Self-Restraint.

Ellen stopped scrubbing the veranda steps long enough to cast an admiring eye on her employer’s garden. “Sure they are fine posies ye have, doctor," she said. “I’ve a neat little house I bought with the money I’d put by, and an elegant garden it had last year, too, but now there’s neither Btlck nor stalk in it." “What was it, hens or dogs?” asked the doctor, sympathetically mentioning his own aversions. "Sure me neighbor—bad luck to her! —had a ditch dug in her land, and the water ran down Into me garden, and washed all me seeds away.” “And what did you do about it?" “What could a poor lone body like me do?" “Well, didn’t you at least say something to the woman, complain or tell her that you wouldn’t stand it?” “Now, doctor, dear, hard words Just leads to bad feelings among neighbors, and that ye know as well as I do; and It’s not me that would be using them. So I only said to her, T hope I’ll live to see the floods flowing over your grave as your ditch-waters have flowed over me garden,’ and I let it go at that.” \ It’s awfully hard for a widower toi convince his children that they need a new mother. _,.A man can coax a woman to do any* thing aha want* to.